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Jim Rose Remembers Radio Monday July 24, 2017

July 24, 2017 [Monday] Issue #1636

ALL THE NEWS THAT IS NEWS

TROUBLED ROCK STAR ENDS IT ALL According to law enforcement officials, Platinum-selling Hard Rock band Linkin Park dynamic lead singer Chester Bennington who suffers from depression for years ends his life in his home near Los Angeles, CA on Thursday morning, ‎July ‎20, ‎2017. In May 2017, Chester responds to the suicide by hanging of friend singer Chris Cornell: I can’t imagine a world without you in it. Mike Shinoda, one of Linkin Park’s founders, says in a tweet that he is Shocked and heartbroken.

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LAST OF RADIO’S REAL SHOWMEN TIME PASSES In radio’s Golden days when there are true showmen, DJ, film critic, newspaper columnist, entertainment emcee Bill Diehl personifies a radio Star. Bill’s Twin Cities radio career spans more than half a century. Born in 1926, Diehl begins as a paperboy at 15 at the St. Paul Pioneer Press . Bill helps establish Top 40 radio in the Twin Cities. On Wednesday, July 19, 2017 Bill Diehl, The Deacon of the Discs, passes away at 91 in hospice care at St. Paul’s Sholom Home East.

IHEART ATTEMPTS TO AVOID BANKRUPTCY One of the last radio properties taken over in private-equity megadeals of a decade ago, iHeartMedia still grapples with its 2006 debt in its leveraged buyout by Thomas H. Lee Partners and Bain Capital. In a near two-year long battle with Franklin Resources to win them over, iHeart Communications signs up a group of fund managers to convince bondholders that it is better to take the new deal than push iHeartMedia into bankruptcy.

MICHAEL JACKSON CHEATS QUINCY JONES Grammy-award winning music producer Quincy Jones files a $30 million royalties suit against Michael Jackson’s production company. Quincy claims that Michael Jackson’s production company cheats him out of a lot of money with the hit records albums that he produces for the late King of Pop. Brought into the courtroom in a wheelchair, 84-year-old Quincy Jones testifies he chooses the musicians, studio and songs for each album, even dictating the key and tempo of the music.

TRIVIA QUESTION: What is the first #1 single in Billboard magazine’s first singles record chart? The answer appears below.

MOVERS AND SHAKERS

•HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Frank Edwards & Ron Carson July 20th. Joe Ladd (who must be at least 39) Roseann Rogers & Doreen Gray July 25th. Bob Ford & Charlie Van Dyke July 26, 2017. •RYAN SEACREST returns as host of ABC’s rebooted version of American Idol. •SISANIE, Ryan Seacrest’s KIIS FM (102.7) Los Angeles, CA morning show co-host, joins Ryan as his television co-host for a day while Kelly Ripa is on vacation on the nationally syndicated Live With Kelly and Ryan on Monday, August 7, 2017.

ENTERTAINMENT AND NEWS MILESTONES

•1953 KEYT TV ABC CH 3 Santa Barbara, CA goes on the air on July 24th. •1963 CHAD BROCK professional wrestler who becomes a Country singer (Yes! -2000) born July 31st in Ocala, FL. •1978 SGT. PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND premieres in NYC on July 24th. •1980 THE URBAN COWBOY soundtrack certifies Platinum on July 24th 10 days after it goes Gold. •1993 RICHARD MOLL 6′ 8″ actor/voice artist (Night Court) weds Susan Brown July 24th. •2009 LADY ANTEBELLUM’sI Run To You certifies Gold July 24th.

EMAILS YES WE HAVE EMAIL

JACK PARNELL [ex WHBQ-560 DJ-Program Director] (Memphis, TN)Subject: Sadness. This isn’t necessarily about radio, but very close to it. I don’t know how many reading this watch “Bill Dance Outdoors” on tv; I’ve been the voiceover for the show for nearly 40 years now, and the producer, Tony Mack (Nee Tony McClure) has been his producer for at least 50 years. Tony died from lung cancer last week. He has always written and sent to me for voicing all the voiceover parts. Tony’s widow Robin, got us all together last night for a memorial dinner. All who have been involved, including Bill Dance himself, his family and all who are involved in the production of that great TV show. We enjoyed the food and fellowship and did a lot of reminiscing. Rest In Peace, Tony. Jack Parnell–former WHBQ-Memphis disk jockey and Program Director.

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DUCKIE MASSEY [ex KIKK FM/KIKK-650, KITE-930, KXOL-1360, KBUC FM, KSMG FM, KONO-860] (San Antonio, TX)Subject: Jim Rose Remembers Radio (#1632) July 10, 2017 [Monday] Jim: I forward your News Letter to Kyle Due KJ97 new PD. Though he might enjoy it and see the paragraph you wrote about him. I called him on the air and I was the 9th caller and he wanted to give me something. I told him I had called him about something else. I got his email address and forward your News Letter. Hay! you never know, he may want your news letter send to him each time.. Duckie ! Director of Sports Sales (www.baywoodhotels.com)

TONY LAWRENCE [ex KPCN-730, WFAA-820/570] (D/FW-Arlington, TX)Subject: The past comes alive… Ted (Cassidy) left Belo for the movies. He would return to visit. I first met him in 1960 when the new building opened. 1960 was the year “communications center” opened for business at Young and Records streets. Before that (WFAA) TV was on Harry Hines and (WFAA-820/570) radio was in the Santa Fe building on Jackson Street.

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MIKE SHANNON [ex KXOL-1360, WBAP-820] (Dallas-Mesquite, TX)Subject: KVIL FM & KFWD FM. Hi Jim, yeah, I’ve heard plenty of stories and met a few KFWD-exes since I wrote that post in 2010! Amon Carter Field, once a major airport hub, was still in some level of operation by the time KFWD signed on around 1971. It had been renamed Great Southwest Airport, and was sitting in the shadow of the forthcoming DFW International Airport being built just across SH183. Still, a mobile home for a radio station??? Then again, the short-lived KJZY in nearby Denton put up a mobile home at its transmitter site in the late-1980s for use as a studio (and, speaking of, Hugh Lampman was a part of that effort.) I met Hugh once, and went to his funeral…but, sadly, I know his contributions to local radio are fading with time. You know I still have the JRRR archives posted on (dfwretroplex.com)

TRIVIA ANSWER: On July 20, 1940 Billboard magazine publishes its first singles record chart. The first #1 song is I’ll Never Smile Again by Frank Sinatra and Tommy Dorsey.

CHUCK DUNAWAY [ex WABC-770, WKY-930, KILT-610, KLIF-1190] (Houston-Katy, TX)The Great Galveston Hurricane was a Category 4 storm, with winds of up to 145 mph per hour, which made landfall on September 8, 1900, in Galveston, Texas, leaving about 6,000 to 12,000 dead. It was the deadliest hurricane in U.S. history. Unfortunately for the residents of Galveston, meteorology was far from an exact science at the end of the 19th century, and they received little warning about the storm’s strength. Even if one uses the low estimate of 6,000 victims, this storm remains the deadliest ever to hit the United States (www.chuckdunawaydj.com/).